ENCHANTED - BY INNOCENCE (ongoing)

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Last chapter was Yashu's dream guys lol

jk it's not, get tissues for this chapter, you will need them.

Also I am okay now haha, thanks for all your love and concern. It means a lot ❤️

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*** Randheera ***

"Then you need to know that I am in love with you"

The moment I heard those words my heart stopped breathing. My mind didn't know how to process that statement. 

How would I when no one ever told me that they loved me?

All these years the only person who told Dheeru that they love Dheeru is me. The only person who considered me special is me....but now....but now....someone else also loves me?

Is that even possible or is this another cruel prank of god?

"Wh-what?" I stuttered unable to trust my ears.

"I..." she hesitated yet repeated once again, "I love you, general sir"

I took a step back and shifted positions trying to balance myself as my body wanted to do notthing but to collapse onto the ground and cry. 

Someone told me they love me....my wife told me she loves me.....I finally have....wait....

"That..." I stuttered with my reply, "that would be a wrong decision....Yashu..." I said, "I am not the kind of person who deserves to be loved."

Her eyebrows flinched upon hearing that statement, as if those are the most painful words she ever heard.

"Why would you say that?" she asked gently.

"Just look at all those people who abandoned me," I said as my voice unintentionally dropped to a whisper, "My mother....my father....god..." I broke at the last word.

"Those..." I struggled to form words, "Those are the people who are supossed to love me unconditionally....yet they abandoned me....I surely..." my heart refused to complete that statement but a part of me still believed it to be true, "I surely must be a horrible person to be abandoned by all of them...."

"That's not true," she immediately replied, "Maybe God just knows that someone else has your back....like the king...like your soldiers...."

I shook my head with a weak smile.

"They..." I barely whispered, "Maybe they never saw the true me....maybe that's why I take so much pride in being the general.....because General Randheera is the one everyone respects nd admires....perhaps the real me is just a horrible monster who...."

"My sweet husband Dheeru who nods to my every command," she interrupted and I fell silent.

Did she just call me Dheeru?

"Oh oh," she realized it too, "I called you by your name." "I am not supossed to do that, am I?" she asked innocently lifting her eyes and unintentionally bringing the much needed peace in my heart.

I couldn't help but slightly smile.

"Dheeru is not my name," I replied.

"Still....it's a part of your name," she whispered looking down.

"Dheera would be a part of my name," I corrected.

"That's just you making excuses for my mistakes," she countered.